American - Physicist | April 22, 1904 - February 18, 1967
My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
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To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.
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There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
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Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
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No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
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I need physics more than friends.
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To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.
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My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
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